The essays in this collection address such issues, paying special attention to the importance of what was characterized at the time as marginal or peripheral (English Catholic, Jews and Hebraism, religiously active women, secularists or atheists).

In the clarity of retrospect, it is apparent that the huge 639-page novel Trust (1966) contains signature thematic seeds that would germinate in later works: history, memory, conduct and its consequences, the cost of assimilation, Jews and non-Jews, Hebraism and Hellenism, and especially the Holocaust and its legacy--which fifty years later in Foreign Bodies Ozick labels "Europe's tattoo" (3).

79) Pending a more thorough investigation of the genealogical sources, therefore, I defer judgment on Seidenspinner-Nunez's proposed biography of Flores while accepting that a converso ancestry could explain his familiarity with a Hebraism like cultre, whether he was the son of a converso merchant and/or the in-law of a nobleman with Jewish roots.

According to Gayatri Spivak, the Indian student of English literature has suffered "a gradual cultural alienation", as s/he: "is called upon to relate to the culture of "a vague space called Britain, even England, in its transaction with Europeanness (meaning of course Western Europe), Hellenism and Hebraism, the advent of Euroamericanism, the trendiness of Commonwealth literature, and the like" (in Rajan 2005: 13).

Yet as Abraham Melamed writes in "The Revival of Christian Hebraism," "the big question is whether the emergence and influence of Christian Hebraism in early modern Europe led to a more tolerant attitude toward the Jews, and additionally to any kind of philosemitism.

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